South Korean students will make paper cranes, wishing for the return of a Korean Buddhist temple taken from Pyongyang by Japan during its colonization of the Korean Peninsula.

A Seoul-based civic group seeking the return of cultural properties said Wednesday that it will launch a campaign to fold 100-thousand paper cranes in hopes of having the wish granted. The group said it will also pressure Japan to return the Yuli Temple Stone Pagoda to the North.

The Cultural Assets Redemption Organization said students at 27 primary and secondary schools in Gyeonggi Province will participate in the campaign, which will be held through January 24.

The group said it will visit Japan on March 1 and deliver the paper cranes and call for the return of the stone pagoda.

The Yuli Temple Stone Pagoda was taken by Japanese businessman Kihachiro Okura from Pyongyang during the colonial period from 1910 to 1945, and is currently exhibited at the hotel that he built in Tokyo, Hotel Okura.